Labour Leader has today (Friday 24 May)
pledged to “reverse the decline of manufacturing” and “build more
in Britain, for Britain” as he visits the North West of England
to highlight Labour's plans to create 650,000 jobs across the
country through the Green Prosperity Plan.
Visiting a business at the heart of the manufacturing and
construction industries in the North West, Labour Leader said that Labour's Green
Prosperity Plan will create jobs upgrading homes for construction
workers, plumbers and installers and build over a thousand local
power projects.
The visit comes as new Labour analysis of official government
statistics confirms that 74,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost
between now and the last general election in 2019. This includes
4,000 jobs lost in the North West of England.
Labour's Green Prosperity Plan will revitalise our industrial
heartlands in Britain with a £7.3 billion National Wealth Fund to
re-industrialise the UK and create hundreds of thousands of good
jobs for plumbers, electricians, engineers, and technicians
across the country.
The ambitious plan will also see £2.5 billion of investment into
steel over the course of the next Parliament to help protect the
UK's capacity to make primary steel. Funding will also go to
eight electric battery factories to protect and grow our
world-leading car industry.
Labour's manufacturing plans for the North West
include:
- Creating jobs upgrading homes for construction workers,
plumbers, installers
- Delivering industrial decarbonisation in Merseyside,
protecting thousands of jobs in heavy industry as well as
creating many more in CCS and green hydrogen
- Upgrade ports along the North West coastline as part of
our £1.8bn investment in Britain's port infrastructure
- Funding electric vehicle battery plants in automotive
heartlands through Labour's £1.5 billion Battery Power fund
- Building over a thousand local power projects.
Speaking at the visit, Labour Leader outlined the choice facing
millions of voters: continued industrial decline after 14 years
of Conservative rule, or national economic renewal with Labour,
saying:
“The North West has a proud manufacturing sector that creates
good jobs for thousands of families, but after 14 years of Tory
chaos and decline, there are fewer jobs in the manufacturing
sector here than there were at the last general election.
“It's time for change. Only a Labour government will reverse the
decline in manufacturing – our plans will build more in Britain,
for Britain and create thousands of good jobs in our industrial
heartlands and coastal communities.
“This General Election will be a choice – a choice between five
more years of Tory decline in manufacturing, in living standards,
and in our public services - or a changed Labour Party who will
rebuild our industrial heartlands.”
Ends
Notes:
Labour's Green Prosperity Plan:
- Labour's Green Prosperity Plan is the party's landmark plan
to grow the UK economy, cut energy bills once and for all, and
make Britain energy independent. This historic investment in
working people and their communities is the only way out of the
high energy bills, energy insecurity, and the doom-loop of low
growth, high taxes and crumbling public services under Rishi
Sunak's Conservatives.
- Labour's Green Prosperity Plan will:
-
- Cut energy bills for good, saving families hundreds of
pounds on their annual household energy costs.
- Create up to half a million jobs in every part of the
country, including our industrial heartlands and coastal
communities.
- Boost Britain's energy independence by using our abundant
natural resources to free ourselves from the manipulations of
Vladimir Putin and petrostates.
- Deliver climate leadership to protect our children from
the threat and costs of the climate emergency.
Jobs methodology:
- Labour's clean power by 2030 plan will help to
reindustrialise the UK with hundreds of thousands of good jobs
for plumbers, electricians, engineers, and technicians across the
country as we invest to gain a head start in the global race for
new green industries.
- This will support the creation of over 200,000 direct jobs
and up to 260,000-300,000 indirect jobs over the decade.
Estimates based on Internal workings based on BEIS and National
Grid Future Energy Scenarios.
- Labour's Warm Homes Plan will support just under 200,000
direct jobs by 2030, creating new opportunities for electricians,
plumbers, and construction workers.
- Total jobs estimate calculated by rebasing the Construction
Industry Training Board's additional jobs projections produced
for the sixth carbon budget according to the investment profile
of Labour's Warm Homes Plan.
Fall in manufacturing jobs:
- ONS data on workforce jobs by industry shows 74k fewer
manufacturing jobs on latest data than December 2019. (Source:
ONS)
- ONS data on workforce jobs by industry and region shows 4k
fewer manufacturing jobs on latest data in the North West than
December 2019. (Source: ONS)
